Aerial overview of several French military outposts in Algeria. French Legionnaires constructing a new fort on top of a hill. They set barbed wire at periphery; crack rocks with sledge hammer; pass building stones in a brigade, passing them along a line of soldiers. They mix mortar with shovels and pass it to masons using it to set stones. A field kitchen feeds the troops. Touch of humor noir: they name the mess tent: "Restaurant Mort delice." Views from outpost. French Legionnaires raise the tricolor over finished outpost. A large white cross held on ground with stones, marks helicopter landing site.
A U.S. experimental tank undergoing field tests in the United States. Soldiers test weapons on a field. An officer demonstrates use of mortar. A flame thrower being fired. Instructors explaining new Army weapon systems. U.S. soldiers pull a captured German V-1 buzz bomb from a shed, for testing. A captured German V-2 rocket is rolled out for testing. The rocket is launched successfully from a launch pad. Soviet Leader Joeseph Stalin and Foreign Minister Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov together, with two Soviet Generals,are seen on a reviewing balcony, above Lenin's tomb, as they watch a Military parade in Red Square, Moscow. Soldiers holding guns march through streets. Tanks and missiles mounted on flat cars move. Buildings in the background. Russian revolutionary Vladimir Llyich Lenin's poster on a wall.
American servicemen are kept informed by American Forces Radio and Television Station facilities. A soldier listens to a radio and writes a letter. Another soldier in southeast Asia looks at a post with directional arrows showing distances thousands of miles away to cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Denver. He sits on a bench and listens to the radio. Aerial view of the broadcasting station part of the American Forces Radio and Television Station. Power is supplied by portable generators housed in wooden shacks. View of radio studios, control rooms and administrative blocks. A man serving as Disc Jockey or DJ operates a control panel and a phonograph turntable to play a record. He turns dials on the control panel and works on a program schedule. View of a reel to reel tape machine running. News report and informational programs are broadcast to a large majority of servicemen. Military cooks working in a kitchen to prepare food. Army soldier standing at washroom sink and shaving, while listening to a portable radio. Two Army soldiers, one white and one African American, playing pool or billiards while listening to a portable radio. Soldiers on a rest break during a patrol in the Vietnam War listen to a radio.
American Forces Radio and Television Station facility in Washington DC, United States. The U.S. Capitol. Traffic on streets. A man sorts and checks news ticker tapes. Rolls of ticker tape emitting from a printing machine and growing in large coil piles. Another man feeds the ticker tapes in a teletype in a newsroom at the American Forces Radio and Television Station.
A Communist party meeting held in Prague, Czechoslovakia after the parliamentary elections. Views in the lobby of the Communist Party headquarters shows people looking at photos of Vladimir Lenin and Czech personalities including Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Bedrich Smetana and others. A meeting of the Communist party after the elections. Members at long tables stand up and applaud. Party officials seated at a long table in the front beneath large hanging pictures of Stalin and Gottwald. Communist Interior minister Václav Nosek proposes Chairman of the meeting Klement Gottwald as their new Prime Minister. Closer view of the photos of Klement Gottwald and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin with two sentences written in Czech: 'With Gottwald we won' and 'With Gottwald we must achieve our plan'.
Officials checking passports of passengers boarding the SS Washington ocean liner at hamburg, Germany, preparing to depart for New York City. Reporters interviewing one of the passengers. The ship's passenger register displayed. An official receives passport from passenger,makes entries and checks on the register, stamps and signs the passport, and returns same to passenger. Views of passengers being processed and of others waiting their turn. ship's officers screening passengers as they enter the ship. They examine tickets and make cursory checks of eyes and lymph glands to screen out any seriously ill persons. (One man is directed aside, for further checking.)
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